Adam Fuss
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© 1985 Adam Fuss

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ArtistBritish, born 1961
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Untitled
  • [Marforio, Capitoline Museum]
Date1985
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 23 3/16 × 19 7/16 in. (58.9 × 49.3 cm)
Sheet: 23 3/4 × 19 13/16 in. (60.4 × 50.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Howard Read
Object number2017.499
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

On a trip to Rome in 1985, Adam Fuss encountered this
1st-century Roman sculpture of a reclining river god, Marforio, in the courtyard
of the Capitoline Museum. “During the day, at the museum, the sculptures were stripped
of their essence as religious objects, carved personifications of gods,
goddesses, and heroes,” Fuss wrote. “What I experienced at night was closer to
their potency.” With



a simple pinhole camera that exaggerated perspective and
encircled his subject in darkness, Fuss found that he could more closely
re-create his firsthand experience.




ProvenanceHoward Read; given to MFAH, 2017.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed in pencil, verso, lower right: Adam Fuss 1986 7/10
Inscribed in pencil, verso, bottom right: 1031.7
Signed in pencil, verso, lower right: Adam Fuss 1986 7/10
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